Theoretical physics Vs medicine

I've always been expected to be the 'doctor' in the family, which I've deeply resented, as it have surfaced the question of whether my interest in medicine is due to expectations or sole interest. As of a couple months ago, I have suddenly become obsessed with physics; anything which applies to the real world and forces. I'm not too sure if I'd like to branch off into astrophysics yet as I have no experience or research, apart from basic GCSE content which I found rather boring (lacked in depth). I've just started my A-levels: maths, bio, chem and physics hoping my career aspirations would clear up, but it has only become more confusing. As of right now, maths and chemistry is boring as it is mostly GCSE content. I found biology relatively interesting, but the content to be overbearing (doing biological molecules). Physics has been really interesting (quantum physics) and not too difficult (not to be overconfident). Does the content / difficulty in biology drastically worsen? If so, I don't think I'll last long. As for physics, does the content become too hard / the questions? For me, one week I'm completely obsessed with physics, and the next, medicine. I don't think I'm too interested in being an engineer, perhaps t work for NASA or to become a university professor. The problem is that my parents argue jobs for physics are scarce, and medicine almost always secures a job. Not to mention, my school has a deadline on the 10th of October for subjects, and they're all fixated on doing three subjects, unless one is further maths (if wanting to do economics, cs, maths, physics or engineering) and if I choose to stay with those 4 a levels, I won't be able to drop them past the deadline. I've looked into Einstein's theory of relativity and although I think I've forgotten most of it, I know I found it very interesting. With medicine, I do love to diagnose diseases / help care for sick relatives using the scarce knowledge I know, but I dread working in a hospital (or maybe it's in my head, as I love to go to the hospital, finding it a comforting place). I have conducted a heart dissection and wasn't squeamish at all, but tbh it wasn't inside of a body. I have always found the human body interesting too, and the idea of cutting into it and fixing the delicate structure is interesting. It's just the biology and chemistry content seems quite boring - chemistry especially (as I hate cells, genetics, plants - anything but anatomy/ to do with the body). What do I do?! Does anyone have any pivotal moments / books/ documentaries / reasons on why the studied medicine / physics? I know some may suggest just swapping bio with FM or dropping it, but I do choose to study physics I do not want to do chemistry at all.

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by byealya

Thank you!! I'm slightly leaning towards medicine only because I am quite interested in the human body and health, but I also want to just do physics at a level to see if it becomes interesting :smile: